Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett joins about 100 others in returning the award to protest the recognition of a right-wing journalist who has been described as racist and anti-Semitic.
Earlier in the week, Andras Heisler, the president of Hungary’s main Jewish umbrella organization, Mazsihisz, joined at least two dozen Hungarian recipients of the same honor who returned their own awards in protest.
Andras Heisler said he was giving back his Knight’s Cross from 2011 to protest the same honor going to a journalist he called a "racist" and an "anti-Semite."
